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John
J. Egan

1810 — 1882 · 19th Century

A Life Along the Mississippi Born in Ireland in 1810, John J. Egan eventually found his way to the United States, settling in the growing landscape of St. Louis, Missouri. While the specifics of his early training remain obscured by time, his presence in the …

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John J. Egan
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from John J. Egan's own colours

Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

0° Red 90° Yellow 180° Cyan 270° Blue saturation →
Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers